Pirates of the Caribbean II: Link Round-Up

July 9th, 2006
by Ariel Wetzel

The blogosphere is atwitter with responses to Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man’s Chest after the Disney film’s opening weekend. Here’s the links I’ve collected so far:

Pirates of the Carribean by LJ User Sabonasi

Boycott Disney, Pirates of the Caribbean by the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink

Yo HoHo! A Pirate’s Life for White People Only, apparently by LJ User Lavendertook

Disney’s Carib Indian cannibals deserve boycott from Indian Country today (this is actually over a year old!)

Pirates of the Caribbean and the Tradition of Racial Oppression by yours truly

Race and Pirates by LJ User Oyceter (great discussion in the comments)

PoTC 2: Oh my! another discussion on LJ by Coniraya

On the matter of Racism and PotC:DMC by LJ user Permetaform

Jack Sparrow, meet Jim Crow by LJ user Gardnerhill

Cannibals of the Caribbean by The Angry Black Woman

Beating the Deadman’s Chest on I Am NOT The Beastmaster

The Problem with Pirates by LJ user Gaudior

I’ll edit to add more links as I find them, but please feel free to alert me to new posts as they go up.

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Filed under TV & Film | Comments (9)

9 Responses to “Pirates of the Caribbean II: Link Round-Up”

  1. lavendertook on July 11, 2006 12:29 am

    Hi! Thanks for the link. There’s also a good post and discussion going on here on coniraya’s LJ:

    http://coniraya.livejournal.com/152649.html

  2. Ariel Wetzel on July 11, 2006 12:51 pm

    You’re welcome! It was a great post. :) I’ve added the new link, thank you.

  3. Mel on July 12, 2006 4:55 pm

    There’s an interesting discussion over at Permetaform’s LJ. The threads about Santeria in the movie are especially interesting, IMO.

    Frankly, I think it’s kind of racist to dismiss Voudoun and Santeria as “racist,” given that they are real religions practiced by POC. I’m seeing a fair bit of objection to the inclusion of Afro-Carib religion in the movie, and it didn’t do a terrible job of it compared to most movies. People aren’t objecting to the portrayal but to the inclusion–what does that say.

    Lots of interesting stuff in those links, though.

  4. Ariel Wetzel on July 14, 2006 1:55 pm

    Thanks for the link. Great discussion, although the use of “femi-nazi” made me twitch.

  5. LJ user gardnerhill on July 19, 2006 6:48 pm

    I finally saw it this past weekend, and by God if a not-particularly-politically sensitive white girl can see the freakin’ racism it’s setting off every car alarm on the block.

    I commented on it here: .

  6. LJ user gardnerhill on July 19, 2006 7:33 pm

    Let me try that one again: I commented on POTC:DMC’s racism in this lj entry: http://gardnerhill.livejournal.com/12695.html

  7. Yonmei on August 12, 2006 5:54 pm

    I finally got to see the movie. Here’s what I thought.

  8. Yonmei on August 12, 2006 5:55 pm

    Let me try to comment again, since that one seemed to disappear.

    I finally got to see the movie: my reaction is here.

    http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/yonmei/38725.html

  9. Feminist SF - The Blog! » Blog Archive » Just been to see Pirates of the Carribean on August 13, 2006 5:35 am

    [...] I wrote this initially as a post on GJ, and tried to post a link to it as a comment on the first post about Pirates of the Carribean, but I can’t comment here. (Post, but not comment. Odd, that.) [...]

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